Hip Hop Show with No Name and special guest Lil'Hyste drops by to discuss his new music video "Up" and more!
In this episode, Lil'Hyste discusses his new single "Up" and how it was created. He also gives some insights into the song's meaning and how it relates to his personal life. Finally, he shares some of his thoughts on the current state of hip-hop and what he brings to the game.
If you're a fan of hip-hop music, then be sure to check out this episode of the Hip-Hop Show with No Name! You won't be disappointed!
@Lil’Hyste Drops By To Discuss His New Music Video “UP” & More
TRANSCRIPT OF DISCUSSION BETWEEN SKELLY, DEUCE AND LIL’HYSTE
[Intro Music 00:00 - 01:23].
Skelly:
Deuce we got a got special one the night, bro.
Deuce:
Hey.
Skelly:
We got a special when the night bro.
Deuce:
Tell them about it. Tell them about it.
Skelly:
The hip hop show with no name. If you new to the channel, please subscribe. Rock that bell so you get notified anytime we go live. We're blessed with another one, bro. We keep getting blessings and blessings. I really do feel like this is divine intervention, bro. Like, I mean it's just the stars align sometimes, bro. And this is one of those special moments in our show history right here that we get to have this opportunity to do this. We got special guests coming in tonight. Lil'Hyste, help him promote his new music video up, which we're going to do a music reaction to here in just one second. And chat's live already, got six in the stream. We're live on YouTube, Twitch and Twitter right now. I appreciate you all coming through. Key does it in the house. I appreciate you coming through.
Deuce:
What's up key?
Skelly:
Key's got a couple of submissions in for November 19th, music review show. We do every third Saturday of every month. And so let's jump right into this Lil'Hyste, music video, bro. I'm going to, bring it up on the stream right here.
Deuce:
Got [inaudible 02:25] spot on. Holding us down on the twist side?
Skelly:
Holding us down on the twist side. Appreciate you coming through. So this is a Lil'Hyste, up official music video. He's signed to a thousand favors, record label and they're part of the Empire Network. And let's give his a look real quick. I've got to view it. It is dope. I think we've got a hit here.
Deuce:
Wait, hold on. Let me go to the headphones so I can get the full scale.
[music interlude 03:23 - 05:36]
Deuce:
Man we got to run that back before this show is over. We going to need some more of that bruh.
Skelly:
Oh my God.
Deuce:
I'm already thinking about it.
[music interlude 05:54 - 06:17]
Deuce:
Let's go. Let's go. Yes man.
Skelly:
There's like multiple styles in there bro. The tempos there bro. Tempos in there.
Deuce:
The bars, metaphors are there. That flow. Like hiphop food spot just stated right there, bro.
Skelly:
Yeah, man. Yeah. I'm looking forward to getting his ideas. So we was thinking of this song because this is dope bro. I think you got to hit here. I know it's up to about 11,000 views that I saw.
Deuce:
Let's go. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Skelly:
On the vivo, channel. Yep. So we're going to bring up, Lil'Hyste, bring him up into the show right here. Appreciate him getting, giving us an opportunity. What's up, Lil'Hyste? What's up Hyste?
Lil'Hyste:
What's up?
Skelly:
What's going on man? We're excited about having this opportunity, man. We should you give this chance.
Lil'Hyste:
Thank you all for having me on the show, man. It's definitely an honor.
Skelly:
So, give us the rundown, overview, like, director, producer who all did it, man, who all collaborated on it, who you want to give some, information out about.
Lil'Hyste:
So it's a crazy story how the whole video even happened in the beginning. So we had me, my team, me, JJ, [inaudible 07:48], my manager, my creative director, Kelly, my manager, co-owner, raw, greedy thousand favor, the whole team. We had a whole production, the dancers, everybody. So we had the whole production and we just went there and just, went crazy. But it was some hiccups that happened.
Skelly:
Of course there always is.
Lil'Hyste:
So the crazy part is, I believe in improvising. So me and the team, we had to improvise it and we shot the video ourself. Because we had to.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah, yeah.
Deuce:
What was the location? I noticed the, like the game spot type.
Skelly:
Okay. It was the video game. Like it was retro video gaming and like, it was an arcade back in the day, which obviously identified with. And the skating routes back in the day. And the bowling alleys. What was the video game, bro? What was the game you were playing?
Lil'Hyste:
Oh, you know what game I was, oh, I forgot the name of the game. But it was that one game where, oh man, I used to have it on my phone, but it's the game where you just hit the button and then he just like, I don't know. Looks like I've forgotten the name of it.
Skelly:
But you all did a great job with the energy of the video, man. The video matches the energy in the song.
Deuce:
Yeah, it is what it is right there man.
Skelly:
Yeah. The visuals are crazy. I think just the cinematography of it, the color schemes, the neon lighting made it feel like it was a club banger, man. That's what it feels like.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Skelly:
But it was like in the innocence of just a retro arcade.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah, yeah.
Skelly:
Just the innocence.
Deuce:
It's fun. As soon as the song starts, it's like, alright, let's go. And it come out with that flow. That crazy compound lifestyle that fast twisters flow. It was like, okay, get your energy up, pay attention.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Yeah.
Deuce:
Pay attention because I'm about to switch some bars.
Lil'Hyste:
Yep. And the crazy part is, I went there and tried to be cool, even though just give my little swag on that, that did not work. That did not work.
Deuce:
Tell me about that.
Lil'Hyste:
Oh, my label. They was like, you got to turn it up. So I was like, turn it up, turn it up, turn it up. So like, the whole experience, like the whole experience of it was just, something I always dreamed of. Like, this is something that I've always dreamed for. Just that opportunity and just to do that, like, opened my mind to, greater things that's coming.
Deuce:
Broke the chase.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Skelly:
So you led to it and, you said the creative, I forget who you said was the creative mastermind behind it all. I remember, oh, Kelly, the name Kelly. Kelly. So he came up the whole retro idea, the whole arcade idea?
Lil'Hyste:
So it was Kelly and Nicole on the raw. So the whole productive team just came up with it. And I just like, all right, I'll do it.
Skelly:
That's tight, bro.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah, yeah.
Skelly:
Man, sometimes when you just get some fresh ideas from some other people, man, it just puts things in perspective.
Deuce:
Absolutely.
Skelly:
Don't always see what other people see. You know what I'm saying? Like, you just got to go with it sometimes, man. Just have that leap of faith, bro. And just jump in.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Skelly:
I think it came through perfectly, man. So it's up to 11,000 views right now on your vivo. So, in two weeks, man. I think it's going to, I'm going to drop that link here in the chat as well. And so that way everybody can go check it, check that up there.
Deuce:
Can we pin it? Can you pin it?
Skelly:
Yeah, you can can pin it. You can pin it.
Deuce:
You got to do it on the, hip hop show with no name channel.
Skelly:
I got you.
Deuce:
But I highlighted right there.
Skelly:
Yep. You had a question for him, dudes, didn't you?
Deuce:
Yes sir. I wanted to start out as soon as you pull up your page, Lil'Hyste, how did that name come about? I heard about it and I love the story behind it. Please tell our audience. Please tell our audience.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. So the name came from my older brother, because my older brother and my pops and them used to rap. So, he was just like, yo, you need a name. So I used to go by hot sauce because I was good in basketball.
Deuce:
Oh, I was about to say, ok.
Lil'Hyste:
My favorite ball game, handle it. So I'm like, you know what, I'm going to go by hot sauce. He was like, nah, nah, you got to go by Hyste. Then I just came up with it. I mean, well he came up with it, then I performed and then it was eventually I was like, man, I wanted to mean more, because at first I asked him, I was like, so what does it mean? And he was like, it means a robbery. So I'm like, okay, I was like, I wanted to mean something more powerful than that. So that's when, like, if you listen to my old catalog, I was wilding because I was trying to fit the name, but I wasn't myself. Like, I didn't enjoy the music that I was really making. I felt like I was being somebody else really. So then I was like, you know what, I want to be me. I like to make people laugh. I like to make people happy. I like to encourage people. So I'm like, you know what, I'm going to just steal. I was like, you know what, I want to turn into a metaphor. And I was like, I want to steal just a little time. How about my robbery going to be, let me rob your ear just for a little bit and then if you feeling mad or sad or whatever you feeling, put me in it for 10 seconds or, a couple of minutes and I've got songs that'll help you, overcome sadness, overcome depression, overcome all this. So I was like, yeah, I like that better.
Deuce:
Bruh, hey, I've been thinking about that idea because I'm like, I'm hearing folks out here blaming hip hop for a lot of things that are going wrong in society and all that. I'm like, that's not what we interpreted. Because I didn't listen to those songs and didn't want to go out and do these crimes around here. So you kind of like flipped it in, reverse it and said, okay, I'm going to use that energy for positive.
Lil'Hyste:
Yep. I'm going to go against the brain.
Deuce:
For positivity.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah, and I mean I ain't going to lie, it was definitely nervewracking for a little bit because I'm like, it's different, but I'm like, Einstein was different.
Skelly:
It's life. It's the right way to live life. Like, you take your obstacles and you turn it into your circumstances, you know what I mean? Like, you just create your own path, man. You make the best out of every situation life deal.
Deuce:
That's what they are man.
Skelly:
Just keep growing.
Deuce:
Nothing comes easy, nothing worth having comes easy, man.
Skelly:
You do things right, good things happen, man. It's just the way it is. It's just the way the world works. I mean, don't take a rocket of scientist to figure this stuff out. It's just the way you work, man. It's the way you live. It's the way you interact with everybody around you in your life. So, just do it man. And I see that man. I see that and what you're doing, man. And I respect that you all, you check out this dude's channel. I put the vi vivo, what is that? Vivo? I don't even know.
Deuce:
I think they pronounce it. I always pronounce vivo these days.
Skelly:
I'm dyslexic, bro. So this stuff make it all confusing for me, bro.
Deuce:
No, but they did have channels, name Vimeo and all that and, you know what I'm saying.
Skelly:
I want everybody to check. Oh man. Just, they make it difficult for me. But I want you all to check out as a YouTube channel as well. And I actually have a clip that I clipped out of there and I wanted to get his reaction to this clip as well. But I still want to hear more plans about the music as well. So what do you got planned for the music? And I'll bring up the fitness challenge later. But what's next? What's next bro?
Lil'Hyste:
So honestly, we got some stuff like, I don't want to give it away, but I feel like when people hear what I really have to like, after this, it's going to be so different that you're not even going to expect it. You're not going to expect it. And I mean, that's what I like to do. I like to push the envelope. My whole thing is I don't want you to be like, oh well he's this type of artist so he's going to have songs like this and then they going to match this and then they going to probably match this. I like to be like, okay, I might come with this, but then you going to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We got some stuff working on, we got some stuff in the works right now that we getting together, putting together and we just going to see how it's going. Everything has been organic, the traction, everything is just been organic. Like, it's crazy.
Deuce:
I'm root for you bro. I'm root for you bro. I'm root for you. I like your style. I like your style. That's Oscar word. Oscar word.
Skelly:
When you start tipping your pitches, you start giving up a lot of home runs.
Deuce:
You shoot what?
Skelly:
So when you play championship ball, man, you can't be tipping pictures bro. And it's just reality of the situation.
Deuce:
Yeah. That something up your sleeve as they say.
Skelly:
But man, this one's only two weeks out and already got 11,000. Like you saying, it's growing organically, you're getting yourself out there, you're putting into work. You're around, you're promoting yourself. You're working hard for yourself, man. And when you work hard for yourself, man, good things happen, bro. That's just the way it is. And I have no doubt good things are going to happen for you.
Deuce:
This should happen for you.
Skelly:
Enjoy this journey.
Deuce:
It should happen for you.
Skelly:
So I was doing my research and stuff, I saw that you've been all over, you've lived all over the place, haven't you?
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Yes sir.
Skelly:
Yeah. So you started out your teen years in Cali, right? And then, moved to Nevada I think?
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah, so I was born in California and then we moved to Minnesota and then after Minnesota, like I was traveling, living with like in Chicago, then Minnesota. And then I go to like Georgia every now and then. And then I moved to Arizona for a good portion of my life. And then from there on out, I was just traveling at that point. Like we'd go to Miami, stay in Miami for a couple, like for some, honestly, you know what's crazy? We went to Jersey and I went to Jersey just to do some music, but I got stuck in Jersey. So, but the reason I got stuck in Jersey, because at the time I was mixing and this is how I was eating, I was eating off of music. So before I knew it, I had like a bunch of people just coming to Jersey, like from Harlem, Queens and I was just making so much music in Jersey. I forgot that I was out there for a couple of years. I just went out there for a couple of months and that was supposed to be the goal, but I was just moving from Jersey to Queens.
Skelly:
You got in a zone.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Zone
Deuce:
Hey, you just named a few of my favorite spots in the world and that trip from Cali to Minnesota, that had to be, a definitely a climate shift. Maybe, but culture shift, right?
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Like everything different, the music, the radio stations, everything.
Deuce:
Yeah. Yeah. That probably all just you getting a taste of all of those different environments. And as we pointed out over the last 30, 40 years of hip hiphop is, the way they thinking on the East coast, the way they thinking of North, the way they thinking on the southeast is a little bit different. We all have a lot of similarities, but we notice the differences. We notice that there are some things that, there's different paths we take. And to be well rounded like that, I can see a lot of that in your style, man. You see a lot of that in your style. You well rounded, you got a taste of each culture.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. And I mean, I had to because I was living in these states. So like, I was, telling hip hop [not clear 20:43], last night I was like, I had a friend from Arizona, so because I was so used to like, Minnesota over here, like I'm so used to over here sound. So when you go over there, it's a whole different sound. So, I'm thinking I'm fitting come over here and kill it. Right? Like I'm going to go to a kill it, man. I had one of my best friends tell me my music sucked for 10 years straight. Every single day. But this is why I love him so much though because, I have friends inside my school that was making music and I'm like, man, I could do that, I could do that, I could do that. But they had the nice equipment. I'm like, bro, I had to learn this style. So I'm battling these people in classrooms and the teacher judging people all around us. I'm battling people in class and like, I'm playing my music and I think my music is hot, but people think it's not. So I'm like, okay. Oh, Arizona's hard. They hard to win. They really, really hard to win. So I'm cranking out songs every day. I'm like, here, how about this? No. So I'm literally doing songs every day. So my brother, he didn't like for me to record in his studio. So I had to sneak every time he left and just hurry up and make a song as fast as possible. So I didn't get no time to really just sit there and write. I had to hurry up and go. Then I go to my friend house, be like, listen to this. He'd be like, nope, next day listen to this. Nope. Next day listen to it. Then I finally got him to say yes. And ever since then, I was making that sound for them.
Deuce:
Yes sir. Trial by fire, they held your feet to the fire. They were sharpening the iron. And making your brother would even give you a shot you had to sneak in. Hey, hey, hey, I hope you ran as electric bill out.
Lil'Hyste:
I should have.
Skelly:
Yeah man. That's what you got to do though. You got to jump in. [inaudible 22:45-22:47] get, and you got to dive in, man. And your hard work will pay off bro. It's going to happen.
Lil'Hyste:
And thank you.
Skelly:
It's just happens that way, man. It's just the way the world works, man. It ain't hard to figure out, man. I see it, I see what you're doing. I see how you're working. I see how you move. I see how your YouTube channel, you got the dedication bro. It's going to work. I want to see how far it takes to happen, and it takes you as far as the work you put into it, man. I mean, if you got the the motivation to keep making and doing it, man, you just keep doing it, man. Keep the blinders on, man. Like you said, you zoned out in New Jersey, right? You zoned out.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Like I didn't even know. Before I knew I'm like, man, a whole couple of years just passed.
Skelly:
Yeah, yeah.
Deuce:
It happens like that. That's a true zone, right? Okay. That's a zone.
Skelly:
That happens when you're a kid, in my career too. You get into the zone like at a certain school or something and just things just align. Like the stars just start aligning and then think the program starts building and you might only get to experience the [inaudible 23:58] check effect like once or twice in your lifetime maybe.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Deuce:
Hey.
Skelly:
You know I'm talking about like where just [inaudible 24:04].
Deuce:
[inaudible 25:04 - 24:06]. Check did coach the Browns and he got fired. So I'm just saying though, so even he had to pay his dues, you know what I'm saying? I'm just saying.
Skelly:
Man, they were building a monster and then [inaudible 24:16] took it to Baltimore and just took it to another level. Anyways, that's another subject.
Deuce:
We talked about that. Yeah. We get off of the sports grabbing a hole and we got a sports fan under the building. He play ball so he understand, he understand other side of the topic.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited about these hogs basketball. I'm ready for it. I'm ready for it.
Skelly:
So, man, I appreciate you coming through, man. Everything that I saw, man, I thought it was, check out this channel. I'm going to pull it up real quick. This is one of my highlights of what I was doing my research, as I saw the about tab and the description.
Deuce:
Man, I was just doing that.
Skelly:
Creativity is limitless. Goals are created by thoughts and actions create accomplishments. This page is designed to grow individuals talents, show you all what I love to do and test my mind by diving into multiple hobbies. Music is my passion. Growth is my journey. Welcome to Lil'Hyste tv.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Skelly:
I think that says a lot about you. You know what I mean?
Lil'Hyste:
[inaudible 25:23] while ago too.
Skelly:
Yeah. You can tell though, but that's fine. Like, it was one of those.
Deuce:
I know. No, you had a vision there.
Skelly:
And it don't ever have to change. That's your first mission statement right there. I could tell.
Lil'Hyste:
I still believe in it though. It's all I know. Like this is all I've been good in. I've never won an award and nothing else. I never like really made it to a basketball team. I tried that. I tried football, I tried everything, but music was the number one thing that I always ran back to. And I was, I don't know, I just practiced.
Deuce:
I think it's part of you, man. I see the guitar in the background. I see the speaker set up there in the keyboard OTLF. So yeah, you do this day and night, you eat, sleep, and drink this.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Every day. Every day. Every day.
Skelly:
So how many styles are in up? There's three to like five styles?
Lil'Hyste:
When I sent it to the label, it was really more styles than what you hear in it. But yeah, they was like, no, I want you to try this one. Because it was that just sit up [inaudible 26:38], [inaudible 26:39 - 26:42]do it in the third too. I'm like, I ain't doing it in the third. So Yeah. Like, I don't know how many, it's like four or five and, twisting one of my favorite rappers. And you can tell. So, I like to come twist. I like to just do all type of, when I get into the music zone, I don't know, whatever comes to me, I like to push the envelope and just try whatever, whatever.
Deuce:
That's what, it comes from your soul. It's not something you really have to push or something you have to struggle to grasp. You just let your soul speak when it comes up. That's what you want to do in life. We should all pick a talent that we love to do. And what do they say? If you do something that you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
Lil'Hyste:
You right. Like one of the things though that really, really like ingrained music inside of me is one of my favorite cousins. He had a stuttering problem, but this is what really made me love him love him. So he had a stuttering problem and I was trying out for the show a long time ago. So he used to stutter and I was like, okay, come to the studio, I put his vocals and make it like not stutter right. And then I was like, okay, I want you to practice this and we going to go to this like, show and do not forget your words. So he was practicing, practicing, practicing. I'm like, okay, the day coming up, be practicing, practicing, practicing, practicing. Before you know it, he ain't even stuttered no more. So I'm like, okay, so music can really do something to you. Like I cured his stuttering. Well, he cured it because he practiced. But the music is what helped him even cure something like that. So I'm like, okay, that was tight.
Deuce:
You see that tight? You got something to that bro. You even hear like you UK rappers or singers, if they hear a song or if they recite a song and it's got a New York accent. Even us, like if I sing a song, if I rapper a song, I'm going to use Jay-Z accent. I'm going to use [inaudible 28:56] accent. I think there's something to that. There's some type of brain connection that corrects itself when you get that music. There's something about me.
Lil'Hyste:
It's the rhythm man.
Deuce:
It's magical bro. Thank God for music. I wish music could adopt me as a great use.
Lil'Hyste:
I love music, man, I love it.
Skelly:
Yeah, we're just fans, man. And it's just been a blessing to have the opportunity to do this. I know you got some great stuff coming for us, you're doing it the right way. You're putting into work, doing the grounded. And now it looks like you're putting together a team, of some people around you that have the right intentions, you know what I'm saying? And we got to work and work for you. And they've done it before, man. They've seen it, they've seen it obviously with the people they've interacted with and the people that, I mean, thousand favors.
Deuce:
Your professionalism is on point, bro. At your age, I wish I was as on point as you are, bro.
Lil'Hyste:
Thank you. Thank you.
Deuce:
I really respect that, bro.
Lil'Hyste:
Thank you. Thank you.
Skelly:
So a thousand Favors. I was reading their article, this article on a Thousand Favors. Who's the owner of it? Who's the owner of A Thousand Favors?
Deuce:
Oh, it is Greedy.
Lil'Hyste:
Greedy Grant.
Skelly:
That's right. Yeah. We're reading about that.
Deuce:
And we already know he got an eye and a ear, so we already know. I'm not going to list all Google that [inaudible 30:37].
Skelly:
DJ Quick. I don't want to list that one for sure.
Deuce:
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Skelly:
DJ Quick. And was it Tone Lo?
Lil'Hyste:
I think so. I know Chingy. I seen Chingy, couple of people in there. He was working with a couple people. Like, I ain't going to lie, like when I first went there and then I seen a pack on the wall, I probably looked like a little kid. So I ain't going to lie. Because I was like, I looked at my team, I was like, bro, that's him. So I'll see how many sold like 5 million, 500 mil. I'm like, that's his name. Like I was tripped out. I'm like, yo. That's crazy.
Skelly:
Yeah. You're walking amongst the hiphop Gods man. This some amazing people that have entertained people for decades.
Deuce:
I say evergreen artists, not just one head wonders. These are evergreen artists. This brother is discovered man. So, correct. I think you are the next one in line, I'm praying at you the next one in line. Because I like your style. I like your message. I like what you about, I like that you've been through something and you not dwelling in that miron, in that misery. You like, okay, I'm going to find a way out of this and flip this and have proof to show for it. Bro. Man, man. Especially these past couple weeks at hip hop. We need you bro. We need you, we need you.
Lil'Hyste:
I got song I just wrote, I got a song that I just wrote. It's like me warning everybody that I'm coming
Deuce:
Alright, alright, alright.
Skelly:
[inaudible 32:18 - 32:21]
Lil'Hyste:
I'm just like, be a little cautious, because I'm coming. It's going to be late. I'm coming. I'm just telling you all.
Skelly:
Yeah. That's way is taken down as how it gets taken down. I mean, somebody comes through and just, manifested into, into reality. Yep.
Lil'Hyste:
And I'm going to branch it together. Because like I said, I was talking to my cousin too and he was talking about, this what gave me some more drive too to even go harder. Because he was like, yo, if you want to make a song and have girls, you know, turn it up to it. He was like, man, you got to make a song like this that's talking about this, that's talking about target, blah blah, blah. I'm like, no you don't. And he is like, okay, well if you want to make a smooth or a love song, you got to talk about this, blah. I'm like, no you don't. I'm like, just put some concept in it and actually you can go against the grain.
Lil'Hyste:
You just got to learn how to do it. Like, I mean, but I can understand why he was, you know, like why he think like that because that's what everybody's doing. Everybody is following the same trend. And I'm going to show people that you do not have to follow that trend. Like I did it to the point to where I'm going to show you ain't even got a cuss. I'm going to go all the way down to the tee, and tell you that you ain't getting nothing, because if you don't want to, and you can still make a song sound hot. Like I'm going to make it to the point to where you can play these songs in a church. You can play them in the club, you can play them in the Boys and Girls Club. I mean, you can play them at a festival. I don't care where you want to play them. I'm going to branch it to the point to where I'm going to show you that music can be universal without following what everyone else is doing.
Skelly:
And the beautiful thing about that is, me and Deuce had this discussion before, we've had this discussion many a times from gaming channels to any kind of YouTube, you have more thumb access if you do it that way. You have a bigger audience potential. And so, I mean, that's the way to do it in my opinion. I mean, you have a bigger audience, potential man till you slap, somebody.
Deuce:
Oh, snap.
Skelly:
And then it's all downhill from there.
Deuce:
You got to do your six months of apologies, bro.
Skelly:
You do one interview on Drink Chip and it goes all downhill. So it's the reality of this world, bro. It's the reality of this world. As long as you keep it positive though, and do things right, you will be rewarded for your work. That's just how it is.
Lil'Hyste:
And that's what's happening.
Skelly:
And that's what's happening.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Like even this right now, me and you guys' channel was, I ain't see this coming. Like I don't even know what to say just about this, you know?
Deuce:
Man we honored.
Skelly:
Yeah, man, this is dope. It's a great opportunity man. And we're excited about your future obviously. And it's going to be pretty cool to get to watch this journey and we're glad to be a part of it man. And yeah, hopefully, we can continue to grow.
Deuce:
You got to do fan in me for sure, bro.
Lil'Hyste:
Thank you.
Deuce:
We, we trying to [inaudible 35:52]
Skelly:
[inaudible 35:54]
Deuce:
Like every single day, right?
Skelly:
So all you can do is keep doing it.
Lil'Hyste:
Thank you all man. Thank you all. Yeah.
Deuce:
We appreciate you and we honored to have you here. Thank you for being so professional background. Looks dope. You presented yourself honorably, man. I got to say this is my first live interview. I mean we've spoken to people, but we appreciate you how you came in. You were like, yo, just freestyle. I mean, just going to be, we just going to be ourselves. And that was like, okay. Let's go. Let's just have fun. Talk to hip hop.
Skelly:
I'm here to enjoy the music man and share.
Deuce:
We're not going to grill you on. No, no, no quizzes or nothing. Bruh I was hiphop food spot suggestion.
Skelly:
Now, I got you on the video game. I got you on the video game. I got you on the video game just competitive guy. I was like really, will he know the question to this? Oh wait, I want to do that video, on the channel, bro. I forgot about that for a second.
Deuce:
Shout out the wooki master in the building. The greatest Mind.
Skelly:
I try not to cuss, but I mess up.
Deuce:
Oh we 30. We cool. We're cool.
Skelly:
Yeah, we 30. Let's see. Where did I send that to?
Deuce:
Is it one that's not on the page?
Skelly:
No, it's in the email. I was looking in the email.
Deuce:
Oh, Okay. Okay.
Skelly:
I created a clip of his show, the fitness chair.
Lil'Hyste:
I wanted see that.
Deuce:
Oh, the fitness challenge. Yes. We need that over here. As you can see in our forties, our brother, two brothers at the top is kind of husky. We need that fitness challenge. We need that energy and all that.
Skelly:
Would you look at that?
Deuce:
Why are you doing that? I'll do Chad. Let's see. Hip hop food spots said, Lil'Hyste, a really dope artist and humble as well. I concur, bruh. We could tell from this interview, 30 minutes in, we could already see that. Love is perspective philosophy on life, as I like to say. We got to have all, got to have a philosophy, a baseline philosophy. Because sometimes we can get distracted and derailed. But you always have something to come back to. And even if you got to take those, take that path again. At least you're not going all the way back to the beginning, bro. You know what I'm saying? Or lost.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Deuce:
Got to have that baseline philosophy of life, man.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Skelly:
Absolutely.
Skelly:
Yeah. So here's that clip. I want to play this.
Deuce:
Oh, YouTube you see that? You see that in the background what YouTube is doing?
Lil'Hyste:
Can't see it.
Deuce:
Oh you can't see it.
Skelly:
Hold on a second. Do I got to be in my skelly? Hold on.
Deuce:
Oh, yeah you got to be in there. And the same one, you're in the stream yards, to do that.
Skelly:
Oh no, it didn't save the clip. All right, so I'm going to go find this thing real quick.
Deuce:
In the email?
Skelly:
No, I made a clip of an episode from a show and that it didn't work.
Lil'Hyste:
That's right. That's my brother like that.
Deuce:
Appreciate it. Hip hop food spot, man.
Deuce:
Hiphop Tourettes.
Skelly:
Was the hookup here on this?
Deuce:
Yeah, shout out to hiphop food spot.
Lil'Hyste:
He is a blessing right there, man. Like, even the way we encountered each other is just crazy.
Deuce:
Ooh. Would you like to expound on that?
Lil'Hyste:
Oh yeah. I mean once we dropped a song, he just posted something and then I'm like, okay. And then he posted another thing, but he just started just helping and I'm just like, whoa. So I'm just like, yo, you don't find this every day. So I'm like, and he's just helping and helping and helping. And before, you know, we start talking and talking, then I'm like, yo, I like you. You know, like he's genuine. He's genuine.
Deuce:
Yes, yes, definitely. That's how he showed up. He showed up on the Twitch side where we only had what, 38 followers on Twitch. And this was way before he just showed up and stayed in the chat, just speaking facts, going along with the show. We were struggling a little bit. He was like, yo, you all got this, you all got this. It was like, okay, who is this?
Skelly:
But that's the kind people you want. That's the kind people you want involved, man. Because he was interactive. He was interactive. He wasn't no bot, you know what I mean? He wasn't trolling. We're big on like who you surround yourself with. Like we got a lot of mods in our channel, bro. Like, we got a lot of blue wrenches and there's a reason why we got a lot of blue wrenches. Because we got a lot of really good people that are vetted on the YouTube streets. They're fellow creators that are fellow people that are out there like grinding. That's the kind of people we want around us. You know what I'm saying? Like, people that are professional that are doing their thing. Like that's the kind of people we want to surround ourselves with, you know what I mean? Like, it's a game of survival of the fittest man. And I could immediately tell when he hit me up with your stuff and told me the name and everything. I was like, I started looking into it and I was like, oh man. Yeah. Like this is the kind of dude you want around. Like this is the kind of people you want around. And so I'm going to love doing this, you know, I'm looking forward to what you got in store for the rest of us. And this 60 day workout challenge is one of those things that, man, this took extreme dedication, man. And I thought this little spot right here in the video was, one of my favorite parts.
Deuce:
Hey, I was just there earlier on the soccer. Oh no. I was at the soccer field. Oh man, I'm confusing my day.
Skelly:
So he's playing kickball. He's playing kickball.
Deuce:
Dang. That's my ok. Let's go.
Skelly:
And he's filming. He's filming. He's got the camera in his hands. And I'm a coach. I'm a PE teacher. So like, this stands out to me. This is some stuff I have do right here. He's filming it out there. Somebody's pitching it. Here we go. Hopefully we can hear it. Oh no. There we go.
[video interlude 42:45 - 43:03]
Skelly:
Bro I thought that was classic right there.
Deuce:
I was expecting something so totally different.
Skelly:
He said he's [inaudible 43:12] above. Yeah. So what, so what's up with the show man? We got more to come I guess, huh?
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Yeah. We still working on the show. You know, we lost all the footage. So we basically, we filming, we still got more, we still got more clips and more shows that we still got. I think it's only like 12 left. We have to record and then we just going to [inaudible 43:34], pull him out again.
Skelly:
Man, I just think that's another example of your dedication though, man. Because I think, what is it like, 36 episodes in?
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Skelly:
You lost some footage, but I know, I have no doubt that you're going to rekindle that fire.
Deuce:
Even better. Even better, right?
Skelly:
He's at 979 subscribers right now. He's like 21 away from a thousand. We can probably get him in that in this video. Hopefully.
Deuce:
[inaudible 44:06 - 44:12]
Lil'Hyste:
It's doing its thing. But it is crazy though how the shoving came about. I knew what was going on. So like, when I was getting signed, they thought they was slick. They was like, yeah, I want you to go on a 60 day workout. They was just trying to tell me I was big nice, in a nive way.
Deuce:
Subtle jab.
Lil'Hyste:
But I know I got big go after the pandemic.
Deuce:
I was going to say that.
Lil'Hyste:
It was the pandemic that did it to me. Because I'm like, I was wearing tight shirts because you know, somebody pumped my head up was like, yeah man, you look swollen in that shirt. So before you know, I'm like, okay, I'm just eating, eating, eating and I'm wearing this tight shirt. And then before, you know, I went to a family function.
Deuce:
Family members don't lie right. And the kid, it was a kid too, wasn't it?
Lil'Hyste:
No, it was my uncle.
Deuce:
Oh it was your uncle.
Lil'Hyste:
So I walked in, I thought I was covered there. They was like, boy, what you got on? I'm, hey, [inaudible 45:10-45:12].
Deuce:
I can relate man to him.
Lil'Hyste:
When I went then they was just like, yeah, do the 60 day workout. So that was a whole thing too, because I'm big on not procrastinating. So they gave us this whole project. I'm like, okay, we've never done anything like this before. So it took us every day. We got up every single day. Mornings, it sucked to do. I ain't going to lie, it sucked to do. But, you know, I like to do it because it just shows me even more, like I'm more humble. I'm more hungry. Because I put in all this work. I like to show how much I love to do this. So if it takes me getting up every single day to do this, because I've told myself this. I said, when I get signed or whenever it happens, I know when it's going to happen. I'm dropping everything even though I know I shouldn't wait that long and I still did it. But I put that, honestly, it was like a scapegoat because I put it in my mind to never forget. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to get my deal. I'm going to get this, I'm going to get that, I'm going to get this, I'm going to get that. And as soon as it happen I'm losing this, I'm going to stop this, I'm going to stop that. And what do you know it happened?
Deuce:
That's discipline bro. Yes. [inaudible 46:26 - 46:33]. He doesn't spit bars in the chat. He said, yes sir. Pressure applied. Yes, it exist. Either makes you stronger or bust pipes or it makes diamonds or bus pipes.
Lil'Hyste:
It's easy to quit. Like, especially doing it, we in there don't know what we doing. My knees start, it's an episode on there where my knees swell up like a tennis ball. I couldn't even walk.
Skelly:
Who are all these people on this journey with you man?
Lil'Hyste:
So the people that's in the episode, well a lot of them is friends and family. But the main team, like you see like throughout the thumbnails, that's you know, that's JJ Cuco and TGZ. And it's funny even on how we all met. So like, TZG is crazy because we all met working in the kitchen, like cooking.
Skelly:
Oh yeah.
Lil'Hyste:
I was going to college and I had to, I went to photography because it was either, I knew I wanted to do something with music. So my thing was like, okay, I'm going to teach music. I'm going to be a music teacher or I'm going to be a videographer type of teacher. So I started taking these classes. So I told my homie teachers, I'm like, yo, you want to help me with this assignment? He helped me with the assignment and then I had a mix tape that I was working on. So I'm like, you want to help me with this music video. He came out to help, after that, you know, the other two guys are his cousins. So they wanted to come too. So they came out. And then before you knew it, we used to have these long conversations every single day after work. And it'll just be about what's going happen. I think this was one of the keys to even getting to where we at right now. Because we had these conversations like, alright, when we get it, what we going to do, like what type of car you going buy? What type of house you going buy?
Deuce:
Yeah.
Lil'Hyste:
You know, but what made it so genuine is a lot of them, they kept talking about like helping people too. Like we was always talking about, man, I'm going to help the homeless. I'm going to my parents. I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. I'm going to do this. And then, you know me, I love to help the homeless because I was homeless. So that's one of my number one thing. So we just started having these conversations. At the conversations, at the conversations. And then you know, when I got hit by the label, I hit them like, yo, we got to go to LA. Like out of nowhere it was like 12, one o'clock in the morning. We like, yo, we got to go to LA. And they was just tripped out. I was like, yeah. And then boom, they put them in. It was like, work with them
Deuce:
Sub man. Hey that's a inspirational story all the way around. And you bringing up the folks around you because the more you bring up, the more that can help. Because they all on, right?
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah.
Deuce:
What Jay-Z said, if everyone in your clique is rich, your click is rugged. Because no one will fall. Because everyone will be each other's crutches. Right. I wish we had that mentality across the board, bro. High tide raises all boats down. Oh my God. I'm glad the metaphors is flowing, but that's all I can think about is the metaphors right now, bro. Forgive me. I call it hiphop tourettes a bar just coast the line. It's like, oh yeah, but this all goes into the philosophy. Bruh you could tell you grounded because you always come back to that same question. Okay. Yeah. We got to skyrocket. But how could I come back and help my baseline? How could I improve on my foundation? You know what I mean?
Skelly:
Well there's the part of making good music. There's a lot of people that can make good music, but people didn't want to support that person that made the music. And you don't ever want to be the person that holds back the music. You know what I mean? I mean it's about being bigger than just the music, being an artist, being a person and having a plan to use your platform in the right way. You know what I mean? And you know, you have people that do that and they're successful, you know, and you have some people that don't want to understand that. And they fall short of it, man. And this is the reality of the situation. You just got to keep pushing, keep grinding. It's ground bro.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. Yeah. I got a lot of friends you know, they call me and they be asking me like, how do you keep doing it? What do you do? Because you like, you got kids, you got family, they got kids, they got family. And I'm like, honestly, it's a mind thing. Like, you just got to do it. I mean, I tell my mama the same thing. Like, ma, you want to do something, you just got to go do it. And I just be like, you just got to do it. I don't know what it is, you just have to just do it. And once you do it, it's done. It's that simple.
Skelly:
I tell Deuce all the time, dude just takes 20 minutes a day. Just do it for 20 minutes a day. Just start something for 20 minutes a day. Just do it for that 20 and then be done with it. Set a timer, man. Set a timer. Say just do it for 20. Yeah. And then just amazing what you could do in 20 minutes if you just schedule it out, put it in your plan. Like I'm going to do this religiously this time every day.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah. That's what the being homeless taught me. That too. Because you know, I was homeless, I had a full-time job and I was in college full-time. So, you know, I was mad at school. Like, this is what really taught me about like, if you do something you can actually do it. So I didn't know how to play the piano. I didn't know how to play the guitar. I didn't know how to do anything. I knew how to make music though. So, you know, it was the greatest grades that I ever got because I had nothing to do. I slept in my car. It was every day I park around this corner, some dark alley, go to sleep, wake up, go to school after school, I go to work. Sometimes at work I sleep in the parking lot at work and then I just repeat. But I had so much time. When I had homework, I go to college, I didn't even know that all these little extra tools that you could use in college, I never knew nothing about that. So I'm like, I'm going to do your homework for you, but I'm like, okay dude,
Lil'Hyste:
But I'm like, I never noticed. Because you know, I'm thinking I got so much to do, but in reality I could have been getting A's and B, like that's the first time I ever had A's and Bs. But that's because I was focused in, I was just married and my son was only like two weeks old. So they was with they mom. My wife was with her mama. So I'm homeless. I'm like, man, we ain't, I mean, I got to provide some way. So I'm like, I can't just quit college because if I moved to another state, I got to go to college there. And I got to fast for things. So I just went all in. I didn't no procrastination. I woke up, I went to class, I did my job, I did my work. I was tired. Had to go to work regardless because I had to get my money. So, you know, and then I was making songs in the car because I was like, I can't fall off. Because you know, I'm, I used to think like, what is like my main thing. I be like, man, what is Michael Jordan? Or not Michael Jordan.
Deuce:
Him name, yes, yes.
Lil'Hyste:
What is Jay-Z? What is Luda? Or whoever, like, whoever's big, I'm like, what you think they doing right now? I'd be like, okay, I'm laying down right now and it'll just make me get up and I'll just get up and I'll be like, okay, if they doing it, they probably going to stop at six o'clock in the morning. I'm going to go to seven. So that'll make me stay up.
Deuce:
I'm a mentality,
Lil'Hyste:
You know, I'll stay countless nights. But that whole process of that just me getting them grades like that and just me like getting on my feet from that whole situation of me just doing it taught me about like how powerful a mind really is. And that's why I'm saying like, I know I'm going to bridge the gap between the music when I'm talking about with music, being able to create a different type of music that's going to be forever. Like it's going to change a lot of things. It's going to let people actually be them now for you. It is going to kind of stop the duplicates. Because I feel like everybody's a duplicate at this time. You know, you got some that's not what it's a lot of duplicates. And I feel like this is going to give people a little in to be like, okay, let me be myself. Let me try something different.
Deuce:
That's leadership. That's leadership qualities right there. You got to be able to take the first step. Show everybody there is a step here. You all are not going to fall off a cliff. Come with me. You know, we are not going to fall.
Skelly:
Takes a leap of faith and the right people. With the right people around you and the people that understand how to move, how to support and be, you know, it's like a energy around, you know what I mean? Like, it's like a wave. And it is going to happen bro. It is no doubt.
Lil'Hyste:
Like even you all are inspiration. Like you think about what you all doing. I know so many people who want to do what you all do, but I know like it just took you to be like, and you to be like, okay, let's do it. And you all just did it. Like even if you have some type of hiccups, like, you know, but I mean the proof is in a put because you all doing it right now.
Deuce:
Appreciate you, appreciate you for saying that. Appreciate you. I appreciate that man.
Skelly:
It's a 10 year plan.
Deuce:
[inaudible 56:42 - 56:50]
Skelly:
One show thing. It ain't a two show thing. It ain't a four show thing. It ain't a once a month thing. It's a decade thing and it takes time man. But you got to be able, willing to do it and have the perseverance. And I do believe if you do those things and you do it the right way and you go to the best of your ability, man, you will be rewarded for it in some way. It ain't going to have to be a couple million. It's just going to be 10,000 good people. Man. I'd love to have 10,000 good people.
Deuce:
[inaudible 57:18-55:22]
Skelly:
I mean, man, we met some amazing people doing this stuff.
Lil'Hyste:
I ain't going to never forget you all man. I swear to you.
Deuce:
You on the list. You at the family tree right now. What you mean you getting invited to the family reunions?
Lil'Hyste:
Thank you all man.
Deuce:
Yeah. We appreciate you holding us down, taking a chance on us, man. Shoot. We showcasing somebody that we believe is going to change the world basically. A game changer. And you taking a chance on us lifting us up, right? Like, I mean we got mad respect to you. Much love and I'm always going to be a fan, a family member. Please reach out if you need anything from us, bro. We got you man. You part of, like I said, you part of our family, our community is, Skelly likes to say, we building a community.
Skelly:
That's why it's no name.
Lil'Hyste:
It ain't got a name bro. It's you all. I like that. That's tight.
Skelly:
Yeah, we could have put our own name on it. It's just a hip hop show. It's you all's show. It has no name and it's here for you all here to service the hiphop community, hip hop culture, hip hop world. And we're just going to share our favorites, you know what I mean? Just do our thing
Lil'Hyste:
That's tight.
Skelly:
Just do our thing man. If you all new to the channel please, hit the rocking that bell. So you're notified anytime we go live. Have any interviews or any blessings like we've gotten tonight to interview Hyste here. share his music video.
Deuce:
Check out the channel. You all pin to the top. We pinned up to the top. Please check out and subscribe. Let's get this brother to a thousand so that he can get in that algorithm. You get pushed in that algorithm even further. Because there's something about those milestones that YouTube recognizes. Because there's little algorithm it's going to recognize, oh, somebody here one K, let's start pushing him a little bit more.
Skelly:
It goes waves. It'll do it man. It'll do it. Here's his, YouTube channel right here. And then this is going to be his new music video up. I will release it as well.
Lil'Hyste:
Well thank all you all in the chat too, man.
Deuce:
Absolutely. These are all good folks, man. It's amazing how this energy is bringing these these awesome folks. Stay on your path of belief for Wooki Masters. Great dude right there, bro. I mean, he will take the time out of his day. No pay and help you out.
Skelly:
See's one of those dudes, black Cash. Black Cash is the artist from, South Carolina and he's making some dope music and he sent me an email and it made, it meant a lot to us. You know, talking about, he's putting in that work on that grind too. He's got some bars, he's got some lyrics and we're glad to have the opportunity. I mean, we want to surround ourselves with people like Black Cash. We want to surround ourselves with people like Lil'Hyste. He we want to surround ourself with the Wooki masters. Your boy Eli, people that are out there, good people doing the hard work, putting in the hard work, the time, the effort to make great music for the world to experience. I don't know where you at, but you need to be listening to it, be listening to it. I don't know where you at, where you've been, what you've been listening to, but there's a new way to find hip hop music and it's here on this show and we're going to do everything in our power. Push you all and promote you all. What up kb Another legend on the YouTube streets. Like KB Wooki. Hyste, we've known these people for like four or five years, man. Like we've known them for a while. Like these are good people like Kbs a gamer. She's one of the best. I call her a legend because like she's one of the best video game players, period. Doesn't you add her editing skills. She has an extreme wit for like, just stuff that's funny. Like, I've never made anybody as quick as witty as she is. And her tiktok is blowing up.
Deuce:
That platform is made for KB right there. Man.
Skelly:
KB can do anything she wants to spend time doing. She can do it all. She's talented and we've known her for years over on the YouTube street.
Deuce:
Weve known Lil'Hyste for an hour and this is a busy man. We didn't even plan on going this long, but its just flowing man. It's flow man. This was nice. This is nice, man. I appreciate you. Sorry I just wanted to hear, we just crossed the one hour.
Skelly:
We did cross an hour, didn't we? I knew we were closing in on it. Well what you want to do, you want to end it here Deuve? Appreciate it coming man.
Deuce:
This is dope man. Work, don't stop we going to still be in back doing what we got to do. But I think this is a perfect way to edit. We all got to love. Look at the chat. They love us brother, bro. I mean
Skelly:
Yeah, that's tight. Thank Appreciate you all.
Lil'Hyste:
Oh, thank you. Black Cash.
Deuce:
Keep running it up, homie. That's right. Keep running it up. That's right. You all check out Black Cash and channel as well. You click on the name or drop the link in a chat.
Lil'Hyste:
Yeah man. Thank you all for having me too, man. The hiphop show with no name. I appreciate you all man. I appreciate the crowd. I appreciate the team man. This was honor. This was honor man.
Deuce:
We honor hiphop.
Skelly:
Food spot. Hiphop food spot.
Deuce:
Shout out to hiphop Food spot.
Lil'Hyste:
A thousand favors. Really great empire. Thank you all man. Everyone
Skelly:
Man, appreciate you all
Deuce:
Coming to I praise this dude, my brother. I appreciate you man, and keep doing your thing and we going to be watching now, bro. We all watching.
Lil'Hyste:
I got you all. Man.
Deuce:
I'm getting that energy, that inspiration from you.
Lil'Hyste:
I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say a little bit. Ghetto children.
Deuce:
Okay.
Lil'Hyste:
That's it.
Skelly:
Coming soon. Ghetto Children.
Lil'Hyste:
Ghetto Children.
Skelly:
Snip it. Here we go.
Lil'Hyste:
And then peace you all.
Deuce:
Peace you all. You all have a good weekend, I'm taking notes.
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